CVE-2006-2362
HIGH7.3EPSS 5.5%Published: 5/15/2006Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2362
Description
Buffer overflow in getsym in tekhex.c in libbfd in Free Software Foundation GNU Binutils before 20060423, as used by GNU strings, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file with a crafted Tektronix Hex Format (TekHex) record in which the length character is not a valid hexadecimal character.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/binutilsfrom 0, < 2.17-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |